Yes, wiping your drive would lose everything on there. Connect your drive to a different computer before wiping if you need to transfer files.
Buy an Android phone that you can flash to change the OS to remove all Google dependancies and use F-Droid to get all of your apps.
Copilot is not an issue, it's Recall that could send screenshots of all files and folders to Microsoft.
Stallman pushed false propaganda about BSD for ideological reasons because the BSD developers allow freedom of choice to let people do what they want with their own computers and BSD developers don't fight proprietary software, they simply don't allow it as part of each BSD base operating system. Stallman and his followers think they know better than UNIX developers which software everybody in the world should use.
It's because of his kind that I only support open source software and comdemn free software and the politics of free software. A whole complete BSD operating system is 100% open source compared to the generic Linux kernel. Why doesn't the Linux-libre develop their own drivers like BSD develop drivers and commision hardware companies for specs for the BSD's to write their own drivers?
I found Bridgy Fed to enable Bluesky to communicate with Mastodon.
It would be no suprise if chromium is more secure but Firefox is more private.
Why do people love bilionaires so much and billion dolllar corporations? How many more billions of dollars do you believe they are entotitled to have? Pfizer got up to $300 Billion with legal immunity that if an injection made someone blind or paralyzed, the top manahement got everybody's money and protected from all responsibilities so they can never be sued in court, which means billionaires have no reason to care who they damage because they will never be in court.